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Recovering lost files is a frequently searched term in Google search because everyone wants to recover those important files that were accidentally deleted, for who knows what reason. Recovering deleted files requires software created for that purpose, and the chance of recovering decreases as time goes on. That is why it is important to be ready and have a solution if file loss occurs.

If you are going to sign or renew a contract with a mobile operator to take a phone, first read this text, recalculate and think twice! Although, I'm not going to reveal anything new here, just draw attention if you forgot, or maybe you didn't know. It is very clear that if you take the phone through a mobile operator, it will be much more expensive than buying the same phone in cash. But here's a specific example.

While Apple is struggling to catch up with its rivals in innovation and implement all those, now, old but interesting technologies, Samsung is certainly one step ahead, as always. Namely, so far there have been only speculations about when Samsung will present a flexible phone (because they have already introduced a flexible screen), and now we have this information from the executive director of the mobile sector in that company - DJ Koch.

If you are buying SSDs you have probably heard/read that they last shorter than HDDs, but should this be the deciding factor whether to buy or not? And how long can an SSD really last for one average user, and how long in general? To get answers to these questions one has to perform tests on several units and under different conditions. Several good studies give us interesting results, and these are some of them.

Maybe you've heard from someone, or maybe just on this blog, about the word "Flagship" (in Serbian: flagship) phone, and you don't quite understand what that means. I searched 1200+ posts on this blog and realized that I did not write an article about what Flagship phones are, and I mention them in the texts .

I have already written a detailed article , with installation instructions, about one domestic IPTV Kodi add-on for watching ex-yu channels online , and in this article, I will present a few more similar ones. For those unfamiliar, Kodi is a program available for many operating systems and platforms (such as Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi i) and with which you can watch movies, series, pictures, listen to music… there are add-ons for him and among other things extras for watching TV channels online.

According to measurements from the second quarter of 2017, Netflix has 103.95 million subscribed users worldwide - is it small? Of that, 51.92 million users are from the USA. During peak traffic, Netflix generates a third of all incoming traffic in the United States . How does Netflix provide all of these users with high-definition video content at all times without traffic congestion and image "braking"?

If you often go to bed at night with the phone, would you like to read an article from the Do You Know Tech Blog for the last time that day, I suggest you apply the advice from this text. Just like computer monitors, phone screens emit artificial blue light that bothers our eyes, especially at night when that screen is the only source of light.

If you have heard of Viber and it offers free messages and calls over the Internet, and you do not know much about new technologies, in this article I will show you how to install Viber on all possible platforms .

Have you ever had the Google Play Store not working or downloading apps? Or did you get the message "Google Play Services has stopped"? Or maybe some error code, such as error 491, 492, 420, 944, 110…, etc.? There is a solution to each of these problems. In this article, I will write about the most common possible mistakes and how to solve them.

Since the purchasing power in Serbia is as it is (read: desperate), and phones cost more than in a country where the average salary is 10 times higher, I believe that not everyone has the opportunity to change their phone every or every other year. That is why in this article I will write about how to use the phone to make it last as long as possible. I am writing after many years of experience and using the Galaxy S2 phone for more than 5 years.